InvestigatingFactorsthatAffectingCitrusWasteProduction in Mazandaran Province, Iran
Agricultural waste management is one of the important issues that agricultural producers should consider to increase their income and environmental protection. Therefore, the investigation of factors that reduce the rate of agricultural production wastage as well as citrus production wastage is...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Islamic Azad University
2017-03-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development |
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| Online Access: | http://ijamad.iaurasht.ac.ir/article_527203_eb6e90249140367d1fbbee413ea6cf32.pdf |
| Summary: | Agricultural waste management is one of the important
issues that agricultural producers should consider to
increase their income and environmental protection. Therefore,
the investigation of factors that reduce the rate of agricultural
production wastage as well as citrus production wastage is of
utmost consequence in order to manage wastes, reduce environmental
degradation and ecosystem destruction, and increase
food security and economic growth. Inspired by this assumption,
the aim of this study was to investigate factors affecting citrus
waste production in Mazandaran Province, Northern Iran (N=
7867). A stratified random sampling method was employed to
collect data from 165 farmers. The main tool to collect data
was a self-designed questionnaire whose content validity was
approved by a panel of experts and an exploratory factor
analysis (EFA), and its reliability was confirmed by calculating
a Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α ≥ 0.7).The results of the exploratory
factor analysis showed that socioeconomic and
technical factors altogether accounted for 60.257% of variances
in citrus production wastage. |
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| ISSN: | 2159-5852 2159-5860 |